If you think that is scary lookup 20-40mm grenade launched drones that can loiter and swarm before bombing a target.

That was intense and scary. ^This says 11 were injured, but the local news said there were 12. And watching them getting engulfed in that massive wall of fire, it's easy to understand why. Yikes.

Holy wow.

That's pretty scary.

Better pulp than a swarm of locusts I suppose.

Actually simply top 15 countries by cases, not deaths. As as I know there haven't been 1.5 million killed around the world at this point.

Still, scary to see.

Scary that private companies have this much info. Just one little bribe to the right employee away from tracking whatever cell # you want to.

Sorry, in the plane instance, I think the turnip in chief was making a dad joke about the invisible plane.

Please focus on the scary, weird shit he says, not the shit that, if anyone else said it, people would merely groan.

"Crossing through the jungle is very scary. Sometimes we get attacked by bison or elephants."

Yeah, someone give that guy a medal. Or a tank.

@quality
Thanks.
Long but worth it and...disconcertingly (appropriately) scary.

There's this video as well between the 20 and 21 minute mark where the fire jumps a road and gets pretty scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3tASRDmRE&fbclid=IwAR2tmoIKhXQn7DJz0FroNI90wVCVYDsQWqrURbjkgK78e6Ez1i02zZg_6UU

Those look like eucalyptus not pine trees....but the same process applies.
The heat will not only desiccate leaves/needles, but it will also vaporize the oils in the leaves (needles in pine trees) making even the air in the canopy flammable. Eucalyptus trees are loaded with oils, maybe even more than pine trees. This is also called crowning, a crown fire, or a canopy fire. Once a fire crowns, it's nearly impossible to fight from the ground....or at all if the tree tops are close together.

Scary stuff. Where I live, in the Northern California redwood forests, that canopy can be hundreds of feet high and continuous in places.

That's called "Candling"
As someone who has been evacuated many times and had my town threatened by forest fires many times, I've seen this first hand so many times. It's scary, but can be predicable. Pine needles are very flammable, and at the correct temperature, they dry instantly and burst into flame like a fuse. If other trees are close, they just keep lighting the next one, like match heads in a book of matches.

If you've ever used pine needles as kindling to start a fire, you'll understand this.

Damn nature, you scary.

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Shocking.

scary.

murrica

Thanks for the good questions.

a) yes
b) yes
c) no
d) yes
e) n/a

If you exclude suicide, the USA doesn't have a staggering rate of gun deaths. It is high compared to some other western countries, but on a world rate it is still very low.

When looking at public health (which is the reason for reducing gun violence) you need to be pragmatic. What will actually give a good outcome for public health? In this case there are about a half a dozen things that kill and maim US citizens at much higher rates than firearms do.

E.g. you are much more likely to be killed in a car crash than murdered by someone with a firearm. Cars by accident kill more people in the USA each year than firearms do on purpose. That's some scary shit right there. Think about that for a second, cars are more dangerous than firearms and people are not even trying to kill themselves or someone else with one. So as an example, you'd be better off trying to fix this first.

Or fix the suicide rate in the US. People aren't in a happy place there.

Obesity kills more people. Doctor malpractice kills more people. Etc. But these are hard issues to tackle that will cost billions or trillions. The low hanging fruit is firearms.

Free health care and mental health care, a better social security system, and various other means would all have magnificent outcomes on everyday life in the USA. But again, they cost a lot and require a paradigm shift.

Have you ever encountered interpersonal violence against you (i.e. had someone attack you)? Or have you maybe worked in a job where you often come into contact with people who have been attacked? I find people change their mind after they realize that they were only ever one wrong turn away from some crazy bastard who wanted to hurt them badly.